Improvement in medical compounds or ointments



UN TED STATES PATENT QFFIGE.

MARY ANN CURTIS, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN MEDICAL COMPOUNDS OR OINTMENTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No.1 36,308, dated February 25,1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARY ANN (loans, of the city and county of San Francisco, State of California, have invented or discovered an Improved Medical Compound or Ointment; and I do hereby declare that the followingdescription fully and exactly enumerates the ingredients and the proportions of each used, together with directions for its use.

My invention or discovery relates to a medical compound or ointment for the cure of all kinds of inflammations, nervous affections, old sores, burns, scalds, sprains, wounds, fractures, cancers, swellings from poison-oak, piles, salt rheum, contracted sinews, "and various other ailments of the human body.

To make my ointment I take following ingredients, in the proportions mentioned: Leaf tobacco, two (2) pounds; lard, four (4) pounds; red wine, one and a half (1%) gallon beth-root, or Trillium pendulum, two (2) ounces; resin, one and threequarter 15;) ounce; niter, one (1) ounce; and bees-wax in suflicient quantity to give the consistence of ointment.

I first pour the wine upon the leaf tobacco, and allow them to stand for twelve (12) hours. Then I'place them over a fire and boil them until the tobacco-leaves take up all the wine.

I then add the lard, and boil again for a few minutes, to incorporate it also with the leaves. After this I take the leaves thus saturated and subject them to pressure until all of the liquid has been extracted, and to this solution I add In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal.

MARY ANN CURTIS. [L. s.)

Witnesses:

B. B. FITEOURTE, T. M. CURTIS. 

